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Order and Disorder in Amorphous and High-Entropy Materials

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Order and disorder are important principles in materials science in which entropy is a measure of disorder in a system. For example, recently developed high-entropy alloys and amorphous alloys have drawn interest based on the ability to design their disorder to bring out different material characteristics. High-entropy alloys are controlled by chemical disorder, whereas amorphous alloys are governed by topological disorder. There is often a need to increase disorder or entropy in these materials to satisfy certain complex performance requirements. Here, we examine the roles of order, disorder, and entropy in amorphous and high-entropy alloys. Several key research topics are summarized, including high-entropy films, high-entropy ceramics, and high-entropy alloys. Moreover, there remain questions about the role of entropy stabilization in high-entropy ceramics. Here, we also report three novel porous light-weight high-entropy nitrides based on the NbTiAlSi system. Our findings clarify the general role of entropy in high-entropy ceramics.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the financial support from the National Science Foundation of China (NSFC, Granted Nos. 51671020); Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (2019B1515120020). P. K. L. acknowledges support from (1) the U.S. Army Office Project (W911NF-13-1-0438 and W911NF-19-2-0049) and program managers, Drs. Michael P. Bakas, David M. Stepp, and S. Mathaudhu and (2) the National Science Foundation (DMR-1611180 and 1809640) and program directors, Drs. Judith Yang, Gary Shiflet, and Diana Farkas. We thank Andrew Jackson, PhD, from Liwen Bianji, Edanz Group China (www.liwenbianji.cn/ac), for editing the English text of a draft of this manuscript.

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  1. Beijing Advanced Innovation Center of Materials Genome Engineering, State Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals and Materials, University of Science and Technology Beijing, 30 Xueyuan Road, Beijing, 100083, China

    XueHui Yan & Yong Zhang

  2. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA

    Peter K. Liaw

  3. Qinghai Provincial Key Laboratory of New Light Alloys, Qinghai Provincial Engineering Research Center of High Performance Light Metal Alloys and Forming, Qinghai University, Xining, 810016, China

    Yong Zhang

  4. Shunde Graduate School, University of University of Science and Technology, Beijing, 528399, Foshan, China

    Yong Zhang

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Yan, X., Liaw, P.K. & Zhang, Y. Order and Disorder in Amorphous and High-Entropy Materials. Metall Mater Trans A 52, 2111–2122 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-021-06250-4

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